Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
We are going to run a web development course (XHTML + CSS + PHP + MySQL) this month. You’ll find the detailed course content on our website. I’ve just blogged on why I have changed the course schedule.
[Edit: the schedule has been changed to five non-consecutive days.]
My son, Kyan, is nearly five years old and he has recently developed a liking for those simple games made with Flash technology which now abound on the Web.
While watching him today while he was playing a simple 2D game involving an F/A-18 shooting on enemy aircrafts, I realised that I did the same thing 20 years ago but, at that time, the game required a dedicated computer (I had an Amiga 500 then.) Now, any computer running any operating system (Kyan is a Linux Mint user!) and featuring a decent browser (Firefox 3) can run similar games while doing a lot of things in parallel.
Time flies. Technology changes. And, fortunately, it is still possible to have a lot of fun with a computer playing simple games :-)
[PS: Sorry for the poor picture…]
A few weeks ago, I got a network attached storage device (a D-Link DNS-323 if you want to know) and it works perfectly with Mac OS X and Linux. I must have transferred more than 500Gb to and fro up to now without any glitch.
Yesterday, I was feeling bored and I decided to boot into Windows XP (I have it on one computer and I have stopped using it) to see if the NAS works well with it. The initial connection went well but I got a Blue Screen of Death (pictured above) during transfer of data.
I rebooted the PC in Windows and tried again. Once more I got the BSOD.
I wonder what normal people do when they get a BSOD? Do they contact their system administrator or technical support group as advised? Or do they just reboot and pray that the problem will go away?
Personally, I only have to reboot the PC and, after a few seconds, something magical happens: the Linux login screen appears.
This is when I realise how lucky I am.